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1. A new Antarctic season begins for 2025/26

   RRS Sir David Attenborough departs from Plymouth on 17 October to begin five-week voyage to Antarctica, marking the start of the new Antarctic field season.

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2. Take off marks launch of Ticket to Antarctica

   The fleet of British Antarctic Survey aircraft have taken off on their annual ‘ferry flights’ from Canada, in preparation for a new season of science in Antarctica. The BAS fleet […]

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3. BAS Carbon Footprint Report 2024/2025: Our journey to net zero

   British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2040.

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4. A historic moment: over 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history captured from an Antarctic ice core

   Ancient ice from Antarctica, extracted as part of the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project, captures a unique climate record spanning at least the past 1.2 million years.

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5. Antarctica’s message to the world: scientists sound alarm on extreme events and tipping points

   Scientists meeting at The Royal Society in London this week are issuing a stark warning: dramatic and extreme changes in Antarctica are happening faster than expected, with consequences that will affect everyone on the planet.

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6. Breaking barriers in the ice

   The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is pioneering inclusivity in one of the world’s most challenging environments – the vast, icy expanse of Antarctica.

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7. Explore new polar maps online

   A new map catalogue with access to a large collection of freely available polar maps is now available online.

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8. 17 September 2025: Postcard from Rothera Research Station

   The British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) wintering team continues to make progress on our new science and operations facility, the Discovery Building at Rothera Research Station, Antarctica.

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9. New exhibition blends art and Antarctica

   The Polar Museum at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, has opened its new exhibition, Through Ice & Fire.

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10. Cruising for clues: discovering invasive species in the Arctic with eDNA

    Scientists have detected the DNA of an invasive marine species in Arctic Canada suggesting the region’s waters are no longer cold enough to be a natural barrier.

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11. Review suggests polar geoengineering ideas could do more harm than good  

    Well-publicised geoengineering ideas are highly unlikely to help the polar regions and could harm ecosystems, communities, international relations, and our chances of reaching net zero by 2050. This is according to a new assessment, published in the journal Frontiers in Science today (9 September 2025).

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12. Send your name to Antarctica

    British Antarctic Survey is inviting you to send your name on an extraordinary adventure to the world’s most remote continent. 

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